Government concern over social engineering

摘要

The government is more worried about political, economic and technical espionage than terrorists when it comes to cyber attacks, the government's Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure (CPNI) revealed last week. Mark Oram, senior manager of knowledge development at the CPNI, said the centre was particularly concerned that cyber spies were using social engineering tricks to persuade people to give them sensitive data, circumventing IT security systems.